''L'Ouragan'' is a 1901 opera by
Alfred Bruneau to a libretto by
Émile Zola
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Richard Taruskin
Richard Filler Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation. The breadth of his scrutiny into source material as well as ...
On Russian Music 2008- p267 0520942809 "The Bruneau-Zola operas were Messidor
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Messidor was the first month of the summer quarter (). It started on 19 or 20 June. It ended on 18 or 19 Jul ...
(1897), L'Ouragan (1901), and L'Enfant roi (1905). L'Ouragan was given in Moscow in a Russian translation in 1905."
Recording
* Gisele Desmoutiers, Camille Mauranne, Berthe Monmart, Pierre Gianotti, Nadine Sauterreau, Orchestre de la Radio Lyrique de Paris,
Eugene Bigot 1957
References
Operas
1901 operas
French-language operas
Operas by Alfred Bruneau
Operas set in France
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